Have you considered he might just have a non-standard gender expression? It doesn’t say anything about his gender identity. And even if he someday determines he’s not a boy, he might be non binary or agender or genderfluid or any number of other things.

Just apologize for pressuring him, let him figure himself out in his own time.

Thank for sharing your poem, it put a smile on my face :)

Pretty much everything I consume. The main exceptions are canned tomatoes (the store brands are always sourer than I’d like), some cheeses. I used to also buy brand pasta, but ever since my supermarket got its own generic bronze-cut pasta I no longer need to.

When it comes to medicinal products I’m more likely to get a brand version though, e.g when the brand version works better, like with Tiger Balm, or when a generic isn’t available.

Tidal’s pretty good, they cost the same as spotify but all accounts have access to lossless. The playlists it makes for me are no worse than spotify’s and I can sleep happy knowing the artists I listen to get compensated better than on either Spotify or Apple Music.

I also feel the app’s design helps me see music in the context of the album it was released in instead of as random tracks, which has made me reconnect with some kinds of music I’d grown apart from after I got Spotify.

Music to my ears. Can’t believe how badly creatives are paid in the US, especially given how important they are for the country’s soft power.

Cool design!

It’s happened to me before, but I would just pluck the feathers. Can’t waste meat like that. As annoying as it might be to hear, do remember those chickens were alive before.

Putting aside the bitter feelings this makes me feel, this is horrible news. From my experience in my own country, voting as a minority & leftist person feels like fighting the waves these last years… I just keep thinking about when things will take a similar turn to Italy’s in other countries too, because it seems like only a matter of time.

No, you’re right! But it’s only possible for epub/mobi and txt files.

Pdfs can be zoomed into, but then you need to scroll around the page and it starts feeling rather like you’re looking at the paper through a keyhole. I tried converting pdf to epub, but the formatting/page layout of the original matters and it doesn’t translate well.

Student here, journal articles are a lot easier to read on paper than on screen. After the first hour or so of screen reading my eyes get drier than the Sahara and I feel dizzy. I tried reading on my e-reader, but journals like to cram as much text on a page as possible, which doesn’t work well on a 6" reader.

Seeing as we just voted in three fascist parties to our parliament, I highly doubt legalisation will happen any time soon. And even if it does, I am sad to say its only purpose will be to throw ash in our eyes so we ignore the much deeper systemic issues in the country, which leave the population starving despite record profits from tourism. Hard to feel any joy about news like this, even though it’d mean I could get married to my partner in our motherland instead of another country.

I’m new to the hobby, so I’m still trying various things out. Putting on some music is the thing I go back to most often, because I can ignore it and focus on counting stitches when necessary. But right now I’m making a doily and it’s pretty repetitive w/ no counting required, so I’ve been binging on the Witcher while making it (and so I have a good excuse to look away when things get too gory).

here’s a new idea for you: sexist jokes aren’t funny and have never been funny, you’re just an asshole

completely unrelated to the conversation, but I love your username!

I haven’t updated my Infinity app in a while, somehow it seems to still be working fine? It’s kinda weird

Interesting way to circumvent the issue. I wonder why the couples who register for the card need to attend a seminar though, it’s a bit strange. What kind of seminar will it be? If it’s just about how to nurse your partner, do straight couples also have to do something similar?

Glad you liked it, it has offered me many hoursodf fun listening :) If you like Michael Hobbs, one of the two presenters, he has another podcast too, Maintenance Phase. It’s very different thematically though, it’s about nutrition and our bad understanding of how our bodies work when it comes to weight. Lots of interesting myth busting there too.

The podcast If Books Could Kill has a pretty good breakdown of all the bullshit in this book too

This sounds pretty interesting! Does anyone know if it’ll be easy to watch for people who haven’t seen Adventure Time?

It looks amazing, good job!